your motherboard manual will tell.
I bought 1 stick of 256mb ddr 400mhz 3200 184pin
and i have a 128 stick in my computer and when i put it in nothing happens it starts up but nothing is sent to the monitor (like its unpluged)i aslo have a radeon 9600se 128 that says Elixir on thae ram chips and the same name is on the ram stick. i tryed differnet set ups like switching and only the new one in but nothing. please help i will check for updates alot

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